ACORN founder and former national chief organizer Wade Rathke, who was dismissed from his post by ACORN's national board in June 2008 after covering up a million dollar embezzlement by his brother, has created or appears to be in control of new activist groups or groups that were part of the ACORN network.

Rathke created a new group called Advocates and Action (website). (Incorporated June 8, 2010 in Louisiana, charter number 40225514N, DUNS: 03-458-5460) The new nonprofit corporation is located at 3401 Saint Claude Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana 70117, according to Nexis. As of June 24, 2012, another 17 organizations show the same address. They are:ACORN SERVICES INCAFFILIATED MEDIA FOUNDATION MOVEMENT, INC.ASI COMMUNITY CENTERBATON ROUGE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL EMPLOYEES, INC.CHIEF ORGANIZER FUND (DUNS: 02-416-1413; previous DUNS: 93-396-2529)

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An award-winning investigative journalist, Matthew Vadum is senior editor at Capital Research Center. His work is cited by Fox News, Weekly Standard, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other media outlets. He's been on "The O'Reilly Factor," "CBS Evening News," "The Daily Show," and "The Colbert Report," and denounced by Al Sharpton, Oliver Stone, Roseanne Barr, and Keith Olbermann. Michelle Malkin hailed Vadum for having "the foresight and insight to report on the [ACORN] story when nobody else would." Glenn Beck said he finally "got it" when Vadum appeared on his Fox TV show to talk about ACORN, helping him draw one of his famous tree diagrams. Vadum "writes some of the harder edged and more influential briefings" in the conservative movement (Washington Post) and is a “conservative data hound" (Washington Independent).
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